Sunday 24 June 2012

WOWCity Review

Today I am going to review the website of WOWCity which is another business pages website.

The first thing to come to mind is obviously the theme, or lack of one I might add.
The design is very circa 99' and is unlikely to trouble many of the alternative business pages out there.  For businesses though they can't afford not to be listed everywhere possible out there in the internet.

Common sections include Reviews
Contact
Coupons
Gift Certificates
Promos & Events
Products
Map/Directions
Photos
Videos

I suppose at least there is more than a single webpage devoted to each business.

Given the right amount of time it is probably a very useful website for driving customers to your chosen website.  The website link and other contact details being very visible.

I rate the website 5/10.  More for functionality than style.

Thursday 21 June 2012

Alexa


Although not strictly classified listings Alexa is quite an important internet company.  Most usually referred to in terms of website stats rather than information.

Alexa - mortons-solicitors.co.uk

I've chosen Alexa for todays because they do allow you to register and allow your users to give reviews of your business which is always useful. Admittadly the site is designed like an accountants spreadsheet so its not the prettiest, but few websites would manage to get that much information onto a page.

I'm going to rate Alexa 2/10.  Its probably the last place people would go to find a classified listing.
Like many of the Web1.0 generation have been arguing for years, Alexa is widely overrated.

Overall the website probably has more appeal to be as a webmaster in giving my the detail of websites who are backlinking me, what terms are people finding my site with etc etc.